Is It Family To Feed, Or Just Dumb Greed?

NBA SUNDAY

Latrell Sprewell has turned into Latrell Sprewell again, just as he did with the Warriors and Knicks.

Sprewell's latest rant is about not being granted an extension at upwards of $13 million per season from the Timberwolves.

"Why would I want to help them win a title?" he said last week, when asked about perhaps waiting until next summer and then testing the free-agent market. "They're not doing anything for me. I'm at risk. I have a lot of risk here. I got my family to feed."

Understand, Sprewell, earning $14.6 million, is 34, with plenty of wear on a body that flies recklessly to the rim.

He said he rejected a three-year, $21 million extension.

"It's insulting to me, that's the way I look at it," he said. "It's just disappointing. You would think they would at least offer something decent."

Sprewell later claimed his words were "spun."

Asked how his "family-to-feed" comments might sit with the unemployed, he responded, "that could be me."